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Karen Kelsky is the Founder and President of The Professor Is In, which provides advice and consulting services on the academic job search and all elements of the academic and post-academic career. She speaks nationally and internationally on topics related to Ph.D. professionalization, and is a weekly columnist at Chronicle Vitae. As the creator of the Sexual Harassment in the Academy Survey and the #MeTooPhD hashtag, Karen speaks nationally on issues of sexual assault in the academy, with a focus on empowering victims and training people in leadership. She is a former tenured professor and department head at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Oregon. Her latest book is The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job (Random House 2015).

Hi Karen,
Justsaw the piece on cbc online.
I’ve counselled about 1000 couples and over 500 men over the years when I was a counsellor – now working in corporate setting.
From those expereinces I wrote a book about men.
Here below is a summary which I thought you might find to be interesting.

“What is it with men that they want to make women receptacles of their pain!?” Lady Gaga
The tsunami of men’s bad behaviors is seen in allegations of sexual harassments by Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Donald Trump, Bill Cosby, Louis C. K., etc. etc., and the revelations in #metoo.

I wrote a book “The Phallic Imperative: Why (Some) Men Are Hard To Get Along With!?” Sub-titled “Male Dinosaurs: A View From The Swamp”

It’s about men’s learned behaviors that can result in us acting out REALLY bad behaviors on others.

Here they are:

1.Men are taught to be problem-solvers, not intimate relators

2.Men don’t take women seriously, while at the same time are terrified of women

3. Vagina envy: men think we need sex & women should give it to us

4. Men have weak masculine egos

5. Men mysticize women

6. Men’s bodies are armored against intimacy

7. Men lie when we feel cornered

8. Men don’t understand why so many women are so angry at men

9. Achievement-oriented men have a self-perception of brutal omnipotence
10. Men have a strong tendency to dominate others, particularly the women they say they “love”

Question: “Besides a dinosaur wadda ya wanna be when you grow up?”

I’m thinking that people are off the mark when they say sexual harassment is a power play over women.
Yes – and – it is, i think, much worse and sinister than that – its about men attempting to snuff out the feminine of which many – not all – men are terrified.